PORTSMOUTH COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Curtiss & Wallace Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Curtis and Wallace families:
                  1937 Feb. 17
                  Research made by Edna E. Hutcheson

Cemetery Location:  8 miles south of Portsmouth, Virginia, on Route #17 to Deep 
                    Creek, thence east on dirt road 100 yards, thence north on 
                    dirt road 400 yards.
                    Portsmouth Co., Virginia


DATE:

1816.

OWNERS:

John Wallace of Walleston, Virginia, Norfolk County.
It has always belonged to the Wallace and Curtis families. [1937]

DESCRIPTION:

A square plat of land two hundred feet by two hundred feet.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


Departed this life 1855 age 46
And two infant children
Mother of Twelve
Woman, Wife and Christian
In Memory of
Elizabeth Curtiss
Consort of Geo. T. Wallace
Born Jan. 31, 1816
Died Jan. 7, 1866
Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God


Billie
wife of Thos. C. Ferbee
Born in Norfolk Co., Va.
Jan. 15, 1836
Died Feb. 16, 1866



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  R. T. Whitehurst, Portsmouth, Virginia

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